After a full investigation, the tragic plane crash that claimed the lives of nearly an entire Russian hockey team, the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv, has been explained.

With “no failures in the operation of the airplane and the engines were found", it has been determined that the accident is the result of a pilot inadvertently pressing on a brake pedal while pulling on the control yoke during takeoff.

Without enough speed for takeoff, the plane collided with the antenna of an airport beacon, then crashed into several pieces and caught fire.